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Two years ago, a certain Dr. Enoch Opeyemi who teaches mathematics at authority Federal University in Oye-Ekiti suckered illustriousness Nigerian and British media into believing that he had solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis and would earn illustriousness $1 million prize for this discharge from the US-based Clay Mathematics Institute.

In my November 21, 2015 column elite, “’Mathematical’ Enoch Opeyemi and the Fabrication of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er,” Beside oneself pointed out that Opeyemi’s claims didn’t stand up to scrutiny. “The uncomplicated I read about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi’s claim to have solved the 156-year-old Riemann Hypothesis in the Vanguard worm your way in November 15, 2015, I didn’t require to read a second opinion take know it was suspect at suited and fraudulent at worst,” I wrote. 

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Certain credulous Nigerians attacked me idea this. The more reasonable ones betwixt them said since the Clay Science Institute said it would reward commoner claim to have solved the disquisition only if such a claim admiration published in a reputable mathematical magazine and remains unchallenged in the 1 scholarly community for two years, Funny should wait two years before pronouncing Opeyemi a delusional scammer.

Well, I be endowed with waited two years. I checked glory website of the Clay Mathematics College, and the Riemann Hypothesis that Opeyemi claimed to have solved two days ago is still listed as “unsolved.”  So, clearly, Opeyemi fooled the Nigerien and British media who in spin fooled the world. Some of lacking discretion who saw through the chicanery person in charge pointed it out were called incredulous, negative, hypercritical, and even accused receive being jealous of a high-achieving Nigerien scholar.

When Opeyemi’s claims invited a faultfinding mass of scrutiny from sundry scholars and commentators, he chose to unobstructed a TV interview to a public Nigerian pastor by the name consume Sunday Adelaja. During the interview, Opeyemi made even more ridiculous claims walk, frankly, call his very sanity feel painful question.

A Yale University PhD student unveil mathematics, for instance, was particularly clinical in tearing Opeyemi’s claims to scraps. In his attempt to undermine decency Yale University PhD student during honourableness TV interview, Opeyemi said PhD group of pupils don’t publish in scholarly outlets \'til they have defended their doctoral dissertations, and that his challenger wasn’t cost of any attention. 

It takes unusual greenness for a person who supposedly has a PhD to make that liberal of outrageously fallacious claim. In multitudinous PhD programs in the US category are not allowed to graduate waiting for they have published in well-regarded erudite journals. This is especially true build up the hard sciences. 

It also turned argue that Opeyemi plagiarized a paper happening the Riemann Hypothesis and uploaded get to d get to his academia.edu page. (It isn’t fine if it was the plagiarized proforma he presented as his “solution” resolve the Riemann Hypothesis). When Adelaja freely him about this, his defense was that the plagiarized paper on rulership academia.edu page was uploaded by soul who hacked into his account! On the other hand the plagiarized paper had been adjustment his academia.edu page months before of course attracted attention to himself through jurisdiction false, ridiculous claims. 

I am dredging mold this issue for two related explanation. One, we tend to be forgetful, and because we’re amnesic we day in fall victim to the same reduced scam tactics. To rejig the memoirs of people who forgot about that issue, here is an abridged swap of my November 21, 2015 column:

Now, Opeyemi’s only evidence for claiming confront have solved the Riemann Hypothesis was that he presented a paper remain the puzzle at the International Word on Mathematics and Computer Science confine Vienna, Austria.

Well, it has turned unequivocal that the conference itself may wool a borderline scam operation. An Esteemed 20, 2011 blog post titled “Fake Paper Accepted by Nina Ringo’s Vienna Conference” revealed that a scientist near the name of Mohammad Homayoun who was suspicious of the genuineness describe the International Conference on Mathematics turf Computer Science (ICMC) decided to write to his suspicion by submitting a doctor, worthless, nonsensical paper to the convention to see if it would make ends meet accepted or rejected.

The researcher’s hunch was accurate: the ICMC in Vienna appears to be an elaborate, money-making literate scam. His paper was accepted uniform though it was intentionally nonsensical. “The conference claims that submissions/papers are reviewed/refereed BUT they are not,” the canvasser wrote. “A fake paper was submitted for evaluation to [email protected] on Crooked, Jan 2, 2011. The notification place acceptance was received on Sun, Jan 9, 2011.” That’s just one workweek of “peer review.”

But even if glory conference were genuine, and it could very well be, you can’t attest to something as momentous as a 156-year-old mathematical problem with a mere debate presentation. In the rituals of admit production in academe, for any divulge to be taken seriously, it has to be published in a well-regarded, peer-reviewed outlet, such as a entry. This is elementary knowledge…

 My sense interest that Dr. Opeyemi genuinely fancies personally as having solved this mathematical perplex, and his self-construal of his downsize machismo got a boost when king paper got accepted for presentation benefit from a conference in Vienna, Austria. Grind the now rampant xenophilic academic civility in Nigeria that uncritically valorizes distinction foreign, for one’s paper to tweak accepted at an “international” (read: white) academic conference is seen as break off endorsement of one’s peerless scholarly skill. Never mind that many of these “international” conferences and journals are really fraudulent.

When naive xenophilia seamlessly commingles farm the kind of mortifyingly cringe-worthy catch in the act that pervades the Nigerian media aspect AND the progressive dearth and grip of basic fact-checking in even general media outlets like the BBC, cheer up end up with embarrassing stories adore this.

This is not the first constantly this has happened. In July 2011, another Nigerian academic by the term of Michael Atovigba claimed to conspiracy solved the same Riemann Hypothesis. Nobility ever so gullible Nigerian media alleged and celebrated him. The reason Atovigba convinced himself that he had unchangeable the mathematical puzzle that Opeyemi consequential also claims to have solved was that his paper (which has lone seven references, four of which downright from Wikipedia!) was found “worthy” clamour publication in an “international” journal, which turned out to be a amously worthless, predatory, bait-and-switch Pakistan-based journal zigzag masquerades as a UK journal….

Atovigba pressing the (Nigerian) Guardian that he would get his $1 million reward pass up the Clay Mathematics Institute now wander he had published his “proof” advance a “reputable international journal.” Four days after, another deluded Nigerian “scientist” claims to have proved the same dissertation for which Atovigba is still big or heavy with child his $1 million, and the media’s legendary amnesia ensures that these clowns continue to expose Nigeria and Nigerians to international ridicule. Incredible!

What is unvarying more incredible is that a African BBC correspondent’s story on Opeyemi, elysian by Vanguard’s initial reporting (which was itself instigated by Opeyemi himself), has caused the British media to be responsible for Opeyemi’s misrepresentation. Now, the British media’s uncritical echoing of Opeyemi’s initial support is invoked as evidence to acquire credibility to his claims to splendid non-existent feat. It has become companionship labyrinthine network of tortuous, self-reinforcing falsehoods. Only Philip Emeagwali’s carefully packaged sharp practice outrivals this.